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O, 1AM PRINCE OF THE INKY IMPS 
AND KING OF THE BLOTTENTOT CREW; 
MY. ANCESTREE HAS A PEDIGREE 
OF A ROYAL PURPLISH HUE. 


ONCE MY LOT WAS A DARK BLUE SPoT 
FLIPPED ON A MILK-WHITE SEA, 

A CREASE AND A FOLD-ANDA BUCCANEER. BOLD 
OUT .JUMPED—AND THAT WAS ME! 


BLOTTENTOTS 


AND HOW TO MAKE THEM 


BY tage Uy ee 


If you've never madea 

Blottentot 
This book will help you 
quite o lot ! 


PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY 
SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK 


. Entered at 
1907, 
Bidets ek Stationers’Hall, 
by Pau - London. 
Company, 


These were 


made for Dymphna 


Digitized by the Internet Archive 
in 2007 with funding from 
cea Microsoft Corporation 


_http://www.archive.org/d etails/blottentotshowto00carmr 


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HOW TO MAKE BLOTTENTOTS 


To make a funny Blottentot, 
First take a piece of paper, 
Splash on some ink, o single spot, 

Crease, press, but cut no Caper. 


Don’t crease exactly at the blot— 
You'll have a fearful muddle ; 

Press sently, too, and not a lot , 
Unless you want a4 pudd le. 


With everything we humans do, 
Practice makes us apter:. 

So start at once, you'll find it true 
At the end of _your first chapter. 


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A FLIT-FLIT FLITTER 


In the realms of peneenend 
Such flies do gaily flitter, 

But when they’ re just a blot of ink 
Of course they cannot glitter. 


They flitter, flutter round about, 
These Flitter- Flitter- Flitters, 
Over dewy flow’ sunny meads, 
The 4i ishtest, bri ightest critters. 


A GOBBLE-ME-UP 


Weedy, Greed Gobble - Me-Up, 
our mouth is a fearful size. 


Do you live on little girls and boys; 


Or merely cakes and pies! 


“TWO BUCKING NIGHTMARES 


‘Two bucking nightmares ran out to neigh, 
Thinking it night, but found it day, 

So took to their heels in sore disma s— 
Im ’fraid they still are running away. 


STRANGE BUT TRUE 


Now it seems fo be scarcely credible, 
A difficult thing to think, 

That such a strange Srotesquerie 
Was pressed from a drop of ink. 


But word for word | tell you, 
As true as word can be, 

‘That in its making there was naught 
But the blindest chanceric. 


LAW-MAKERS 


‘Tom and Johnny Mlake-the- law, 
Talkative and lazy, 

Standing ona Thingumaji¢ 
Comical and crazy. 

You are just a pair of Imps, 


With buf one les that badly limps. 


MISTRESS NELL 


Gadzooks, Mell Gwynne! 
How did you set in? 
Did you walk or were you brought 
in your chair? ? 
Your dress is perfection 
To the smallest section 
OF stomacher, quilting and hatr. 


A PROFESSIONAL TIFF 


Said Dr. Spindleshanks, 
“TIL stand no suly pranks ie 
“Youre nothing but a prio!” 
Said Dr. Funnywig. 

Then, making each & face, 


They went off al aA pace. 


SAFE AT A DISTANCE 


You bio Bugaboo! 
We didn’t want you, 
But really now that you’ve come, 
If you keep far away 
We’ ll permif you to stay, 
Just as long as you kee p quite dumb. 


TEENY AND TINY 


Teeny and Tiny Pugnoses 
Have discovered two beautiful roses, 
But the stems are so tall 
They can’t reach them at all, 
Though they stand on the tips 
of their toeses. 


IMPISH 


You can see by the look of this 
big-foated Sprite, 
That just the one thing that 
affords him delight 
Is to Give a high jump and land 
on your toe, 
On the very same Spot where 
the bigsesf corns Grow. 


—-1i1- 


A LITTLE GRASS MIDGET 


This isa little _Srass Midget, 

As you know a most terrible fidget. 
For A month ever year 
He makes it quite clear 


‘That he is a little grass Midget. 


SIAMESE TWINS ¢ 


I hope they're On pegs, 
Because tf theyre leds, 
They are altogether shocking. 
‘They have no feet, 

And almost mect, 


And havent the sign of a stocking. 


A KANGAR-ROOSTER-ROO 
Why, here’s our dear old esd gl 


Our Kangar -rooster-roo! 
And Seeing he’s such A whopper, 
PIL certainly not say “Shoo”! 


Then there are two,vyou sec, 


So Id better hold my peace, 
Or they may Stl on me 


And leave mea crumpled Créase 


A SURPRISE 


A Saquidgeecums quee 
Gict s in a neuay 
And found another — 
The fac simile. 
“Qh dear! oh my!” 
He said jum ping high, 
sy Be pe my brother— 


What a “horrible _suy!” 


sia BSE ess 


CONS|DERATE 


“You jump over to me, said Sue. 

“T wish you would come to me, 
said Loo; 

As sure as Ll jum 

Vl. kick that stump, 

So really I'd rather let you.” 


peo Yee 


RISKY 


Mow this is just the funniest rogue, 
A Brownie as black astink, 
And what he’s doing perched up there, 


I’m sure L cannot think. 


He’s holding his arms like a patr of satls; 
Perhaps he’s tr ing to fly. 

Let’s hope he wont be play tng that_game 
When you and I pass by. 


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DOGGEREL 


Here are the strangest pair of dogs, 
What sort [ cannot tell, 


But judging by their noses. sharp 
hey have the sense of smell. 


Their tails are very, very long,— 
But does ct reall matter ? 
By the very way the Cy stare and start 
Thasiee mt AS any hatter. 


—(|s— 


A WARNING 


Are these Quumps oy Za abogs 
Golliwogs Or PRR ‘ 
Anyhow » you'd best look out,— 
They’re just about to snecze! 


THE LATEST DISCOVERY 


I've just discovered a marvelous way 
OF making these Blottentots mottled and L Gray; 
\f you promise you never will show any one 


Tl tell you the secret of how it is done. 


‘Take two bottles of ink ,one thick and one thin, 
OF different blacks, and dip your pen in, 
From each splash-a drop at the very Same spot, 
‘Then doas be-fore , only pressing a lot. 


SORRY GRIGS 


What makes these Little Grigs so sad? 
tae Ada standing most dejected. 


Have hey been up to something bad 
And in it _got detected? 


LANKY DOODLE 


Lanky Doodle came to town 
Without his Little Pony > 
Stuck a feather in his “hat 
With bits of macaroni. 


THE DANCE 


Jingle our bells and your tambourine 

For just such a dance as you never have seen; 
Such swishing of skirts, and glancing of feet, 
Such bowing And parting, then running to meet: 
So Jingle your bells and your tambourine, 
And keep them a- dancing From morning till e’en. 


LOOK OUT FOR HIM! 


He’s Flying in the air, 
| © you are safe and sound, 
But you had better skip 
When he lishts upon the Sround. 


MACBETH 
Act I , Scene 1. 


“When shall we two meet again— 
In thunder, lightning, or tn rain! 
“When the hurly-burl ’s done, 
When the battle’s bst and won 


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PERPLEXING 


A queer little wight, 

Ve vy strandel dig HT, 

Looked So much like his brother, 
‘That, believe me , ct’s true, 

No one ever knew 

How to tell one from tother. 


MERELY ACCIDEN TAL 


Such angular shapes 

In such beautiful capes 

Are the silliest contradiction, 
But they simply “came? 

So in ee Kies | 

With Blottentots there’s no restriction. 


BIRDS OF A FEATHER 


“Now really it is shocking!” irately said 
Miss 5, “s | 4 

“To think that you are mocking an a 
making fun of me. 

You have your wings and ruffling s 
the very Same As Wi 

So yeu need not turn your nose up, 
with a twinkle in your eye.” 


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A DE-DUCK- TION 


Pluck 

A duck 

Of a wing. 
Alack ! 
Hell quack, 


And not Sing , 


AN OVERSIGHT 


‘Two Rabbits met and shook hands one day 
In the Stravest possible kind of a way. 

But what was the cause of their Serious mien 
From our picture is not very easily seen. 
Theyd been jollier far cf they'd stopped to sup 
‘The honeyed mead from the buttercup. 


QUITE THE THING 


Words fail 
‘To detail, 


I can only smile. 
Your salute 
Is cute 


And just perfect style. 


QUAINT AND QUEER 


Quaint and Queer, 
funn ir, 
The funniest you could sec, 
Met one day 
Ina strange array, 
The strangest that could be. 


Each stood and stared 

As if he feared 

Thet he would get a poke; 
But laushed ng aah 

The other kind, 

And thought it all & joke. 


FINIS 


Before, I] had some Cassowaries, 
Now I have two Dromedaries. 


So iust to leave some shapes for you, 
ile doff my Cap And say adieu. 


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